THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2018

 

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND ENERGY

Senator Lorraine R. Inouye, Chair

Senator Will Espero, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND HEALTH

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Jill N. Tokuda, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Friday, February 9, 2018

TIME:

9:00 am

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 2910

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTRIC GRID RESILIENCY.

Establishes the grid resiliency capital investment program and the grid resiliency rebate program as well as a grid resiliency task force to prepare the State's electrical grid for natural disasters and other emergencies.

 

TRE/CPH, WAM

SB 2915

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Prohibits a person from intentionally or knowingly manufacturing, importing, installing, reinstalling, distributing, selling, or offering for sale any counterfeit supplemental restraint system component, nonfunctional airbag, or airbag that does not meet federal safety requirements.  Prohibits a person from intentionally or knowingly selling, offering for sale, installing, or reinstalling in a motor vehicle any device that causes the motor vehicle's diagnostic systems to fail to warn that the motor vehicle is equipped with a counterfeit supplemental restraint system component or nonfunctional airbag or that no airbag is installed, as applicable.

Pending re-referral to TRE/CPH, JDC

 

SB 2324

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Expands the definition of "aftermarket motorcycle frame" to include a frame that was built as a hobby and retrofitted with certain features to be in compliance with all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.  Requires a county director of finance to register a motorcycle with an aftermarket motorcycle frame that meets all registration requirements.

 

 

CPH/TRE, WAM

SB 2200

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE.

Prohibits smoking in a motor vehicle in which a person under the age of eighteen is present.  Requires the department of health to report on the enforceability of this Act and coordination of related data collection activities of the respective law enforcement agencies.

 

CPH/TRE, JDC/WAM

SB 2462

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTRIC UTILITIES.

Allows the Public Utilities Commission to require electric cooperatives to disengage from owning any generation asset, provided that the commission may establish a transition period to allow for existing utility generation units to be converted to third-party power purchase agreements.

 

CPH/TRE, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair

 

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Senator Lorraine R. Inouye

Chair